WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker today led members of the New Jersey Congressional delegation in calling on the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to prioritize the COVID-19 vaccine program at Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) Fort Dix to ensure widespread vaccination among the incarcerated individuals and staff at the... Read More

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Ranking Member Jim Risch (R-Idaho) issued the following joint statement in the lead-up to the elections in Albania scheduled for this weekend: “As Albania prepares for national elections on April 25, we encourage the Albanian people to vote. We urge authorities... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), the highest ranking Latino in the U.S. Congress and author of New Jersey’s first hate crimes law, today applauded the passage of the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act and issued the following statement:“Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, we have witnessed cowards who... Read More

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement on President Joe Biden convening 40 world leaders for a Summit on Climate today on Earth Day 2021: “President Biden’s hosting of this week’s Leaders’ Summit on Climate sends a strong signal to our partners that... Read More

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) issued the following statement in reaction to reports that President Joe Biden will officially recognize the Ottoman Empire's genocide against the Armenian people. To date, no U.S. president has made it U.S. policy to affirm the historical facts of the Armenian... Read More

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today applauded committee passage of their bipartisan, comprehensive China legislation. Entitled the Strategic Competition Act, the legislation is an unprecedented, bipartisan effort to mobilize all United... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker (both D-N.J.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), along with Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (N.J.-06) today introduced a bill to hold polluters responsible for the cleanup of contaminated Superfund sites in New Jersey and across the country.The Superfund Polluter Pays Restoration Act... Read More

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, delivered the following opening remarks at this morning’s business meeting to consider S. 1169, the Strategic Competition Act of 2021. The legislation represents the first major proposal to bring Democrats and Republicans together in laying out a... Read More

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement in response to the United Nations World Food Program’s (WFP) announcement that it will begin operating in Venezuela with the priority of serving the most vulnerable children: “As the WFP programming begins in the... Read More

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement after the Committee received a classified briefing from the Biden administration on the negotiation process and security situation in Afghanistan: “I very much appreciated the Administration’s willingness to provide... Read More

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today was joined by Senators Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), in calling on President Joe Biden to build on his Administration’s recent actions to address the gun violence... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker today announced New Jersey will receive $694,327,527 in federal funding from the American Rescue Plan to support child care providers, help them reopen safely, and ensure families have access to affordable, high quality child care.“The struggle for families to find safe and affordable... Read More

BLOOMFIELD, N.J. – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez and Congresswoman Mikie Sherrill (N.J.-11) today joined Bloomfield Mayor Michael Venezia to launch a bold, proactive effort to protect local residents from lead-contaminated drinking water using federal funding from the American Rescue Plan (ARP).  Part of Bloomfield was impacted in 2019 by high... Read More

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, earlier today wrote to urge President Joe Biden to follow through on his commitment to raise the FY21 refugee ceiling from the Trump administration’s 15,000 maximum – the lowest cap on refugee admissions since the refugee resettlement program’s... Read More

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) today introduced the Secure F-35 Exports Act of 2021, legislation to reassert Congressional oversight over the sale of sophisticated and mission-critical American military systems. The legislation comes... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez, chairman of the Senate subcommittee that oversees Wall Street, today joined several colleagues in introducing the Investor Choice Act, bicameral legislation prohibiting pre-dispute mandatory (or “forced”) arbitration agreements and barring bans on class action lawsuits in customer contracts investors... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker today announced New Jersey will receive $325,965,861 in federal funding to support homeowners experiencing financial hardship due to the pandemic. The senators’ secured this funding in the American Rescue Plan that President Biden signed into law last month.“The COVID-19 pandemic has... Read More

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement after the Biden administration announced it would take a series of measures to hold Russia accountable for the SolarWinds cyberattack, payment of bounties to militants for killing U.S. and allied forces in Afghanistan,... Read More

WASHINGTON – Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) was joined by nine of his Senate Democratic colleagues in introducing new international climate change legislation in support of President Biden’s ambitious climate action agenda. Entitled the United States Climate Leadership in International Mitigation, Adaptation, and... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-N.J.-12) today reintroduced the Help Empower Americans to Respond (HEAR) Act, federal gun safety legislation to ban the importation, sale, manufacturing, transfer and possession of gun silencers or suppressors. “Gun silencers are dangerous devices with... Read More